Tag: "location-based"
WWDC 2010: Insurrection 2035 impressions
Filed under: Gaming Ever since the iPhone was introduced, we’ve been looking for a good location-based MMO — a game that could rely on location information direct from the iPhone to let many different players interact with each other on a grand scale. There have been a few contenders so far ( MyTown is definitely the most successful to date, and Shadowforce’s Gunman has loyal fans), but I don’t think anyone’s really nailed that feeling of hunting players and exploring in real-life that we all dreamed of. Paranoid Games, however, is going to give it a shot with Insurrection 2035 , an interesting idea for an iPhone game that’s due out in early July. I got to see the game in action this week at WWDC , and while I didn’t get to play it (the game is basically a map interface so far, and a lack of players means there’s not a lot of action going on quite yet), Sam Magdalein makes a good pitch. The idea is a virtual version of the Assassins game , where a group of players hunts each other around real-life locations. In Insurrection, there’s a “Big Brother-themed backstory” that has players working against each other, trying to predict and report other players’ movements to an authority.
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Review: Rally Up is the Coolest Social Networking App for iPad
Rally Up, the newish location based social networking app, released an update for iPad Thursday that immediately puts the upstart application ahead of the game for people who want to keep track of and interact with their friends on the iPad. Taking full advantage of the iPad’s increased real estate, Rally Up’s unique map-based canvas gives
View PostLoopt teams with Mobile Spinach for check-in discounts, Booyah talks about MyTown
Filed under: Software , iPhone , App Store If the iPhone has a leading app genre, aside from gaming, I’d say the current surge of “check-in” apps is probably it. Sure, back when the App Store first opened up, Twitter apps were everywhere (and they’re still being made daily, it seems), but in terms of a genre that can only exist on a location-aware device like the iPhone, “check-in” apps like Foursquare, Gowalla, and so on, are making their mark right now. Here’s news on two such apps continuing to grow on the App Store skyline. First up, Loopt [ iTunes link ] has announced a partnership with a company called Mobile Spinach to start trying to monetize this kind of app usage. Mobile Spinach delivers local ads, and Loopt says that it’ll be using their location-based social networking service to bring specials and deals to users from wherever they check-in from
Microsoft still beats Apple in cash and investments, for now
Filed under: Apple Financial , Apple Back during the earnings call a few weeks ago , it was mentioned that Apple has a jaw-dropping almost $40 billion just sitting around in cash. In the chat, we started talking about other companies that might have that much money in the hopper — Google came up, but I don’t think we were able to guess another one. But it turns out Apple isn’t even the most flush company out there, and the name of the first might surprise you: According to this chart on Silicon Alley Insider, Microsoft is currently sitting on just slightly more money than even Apple, with Google and Intel coming close behind; although Apple briefly pulled ahead of MS at the end of 2008, the Redmond Revenue Racers had more cash through most of ’09 than Apple did. Well how ’bout that. Of course, the current curves are not so favorable to Microsoft (after the Win7 update push slows down a bit) so it may not be long before Apple’s pile grows even bigger
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